As far as I can tell from this Daily Mail story, 17-year-old Chloe Goodman doesn’t have any history of violence or, indeed, juvenile delinquency. And yet the Manchester Crown Court sentenced Ms. Goodman to three years in prison for hiding guns for a “viscous criminal gang.” Not to mention a lecture about gun control from Judge Timothy Mort: “A gun is used to reinforce a culture of territory or drugs and therefore it has no place in our society. That is why Parliament brought in mandatory sentences. The reason for that is because everybody is so concerned about the availability of guns in the community. From access to your computer it is clear that at the time you saw it was cool to be associated with lads who were on the fringes of gun culture in the area.” One can only imagine her sentence if she’d been in the mainstream of local gun culture. Oh sorry. He’s not done . . .
